Funding and Grants
The FOSS United grants program aims to provide financial support to FOSS creators,
maintainers, projects and events all over India. To date, we have disbursed over INR 3
crores towards Indian FOSS projects and maintainers. All FOSS United grantees are
listed here.
We fund FOSS projects by raising funds from the tech industry, either through our
Industry Partnership Program, individual donations, or by reaching out to companies
that might be interested in co-sponsoring certain projects or organizations.
To read more about the structure of the grants program, evaluation criteria and more, please go through our grants thesis.
If you're a FOSS project or developer in need of financial support, please apply. For any questions, please reach out to us at grants@fossunited.org.
Project Grants
Project grants are largely “non-thematic”. In the past, we have funded developer tools, consumer apps, non-profit foundations, FOSS mirrors, Open Hardware projects, individual contributors, and even new programming languages!
Recent Grants
A professional, cross-platform subtitle editing application built with Flutter. Subtitle Studio provides powerful tools for editing, synchronizing, and managing subtitle files with an intuitive, modern interface.
Privacy respecting, free software, collaboration and communication services - https://git.fosscommunity.in/community
HillHacks.in 2026 will take place from 3 to 7 June in The Bagicha, Bir area. You and friends are cordially invited. In this event, people from different places, walks of life and lines of thought come together to share, collaborate and learn. Hackers talk code. Artists share their creativity. Students join in from schools and colleges to learn new skills. Locals and globals mix and mingle. Among all the software and hardware, we also build things like tables, hula hoops, interactive art installations, and solar lanterns. We connect. We dance and sing. Ideas emerge. Collaborations form. Lives change. In the hacking, we get hacked ourselves. Philosophy HillHacks is passionate about making, sharing, learning, and the broad concepts of open source. Freedom, security, and environmentalism are also key to hillhackers. All of our ideas have conjoined into something exceptionally creative. The event starts with a core team and then takes shape organically based on the competence and skills of the attendees. This is similar to an unconference which is a participant-driven event. The agenda isn’t fixed in advance—the people who show up decide what gets discussed, when, and how.
This special edition is being organized alongside ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026, and aims to bring together database practitioners, systems engineers, and researchers to discuss how modern data systems are designed, scaled, and operated in production. The programme includes talks on: distributed databases and storage systems database internals and performance engineering AI and agentic workloads on databases production failures, bottlenecks, and operational learnings research ideas meeting real-world systems More about the conference: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/special-edition-on-databases/
Minidebcamps are unconference where developers sit together to fix issues, conduct discussion for the Debian Project. Kochi minidebcamp is 4 days on an Island fixing things in Debian Project. Contributors and users join us and engage in technical discussions, sprints, and bug squashing parties.
Follow-on fellowship grant of INR 6L to support contrapunctus’ work in the OSM ecosystem. Last year, contrapunctus travelled to events all over the country to host workshops, events and give talks.
Fellowship to support Aravinda’s work on Sanka and a plethora of other projects, mostly around FOSS Kannada tooling!
Policy in Action Program (Summer cohort) by Young Leaders in Active Citizenship (YLAC). Akshit and Niya were provided a grant to pursue the program.